For Simji Park, inspiration can strike at any moment. \u201cThe wind when I\u2019m walking my dog, the leaves moving in the trees, the temperature I feel on my skin\u201d \u2013 the list goes on. It could be conversations overheard on a train, a book she is reading, or the feeling of paper when she turns the page. \u201cI especially like the calm, gentle feeling that comes with walking at night,\u201d says Simji. \u201cBeing with people I love inspires me a lot too. I think those are the times when I feel most alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simji\u2019s illustrations are calm, tactile, and impressionistic. Insects, animals and tiny humans scuttle across a patchwork of scenes where nature is ever present. The illustrator chooses her materials intuitively too. Some days it\u2019s pencil or watercolour, other days its oil paints or a digital illustration. \u201cIt depends on the idea and the feeling I want the work to have. Sometimes it needs to move and become an animation. Other times, still images are enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
These illustrations feel like vignettes from a dream, full of symbols and stories that may hold deeper meanings. \u201cThere is usually something I want to say through my work, but sometimes I can\u2019t really explain my own feelings,\u201d the artist explains. \u201cDrawing feels a bit like therapy. When too many feelings build up inside me, making something helps me slowly take them out and give them a form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Simji Park, inspiration can strike at any moment. \u201cThe wind when I\u2019m walking my dog, the leaves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-574713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}